Merits
| Hunting tests (NOU/Retriever B-tests) |
 NOU1, Approved Finnish cold game retrieving test
(at the age of 14 months), see the rules
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| MH / mental test |
Approved
MH, mental description with approved shot (1)
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| Obedience tests |
Moved up to obedience class III (winners' class)
1st prize in class II with 193,5 / 200 p. + HP, 2nd placement
1st prize in class II with 182 / 200 p. + HP, 1st placement
1st prize in class I with 198 / 200 p. + HP, 1st placement
3 x 1st prize in class I --> title TK1
Best OBEDIENCE TOLLER 2011 in class I, awarded by Finnish Toller Club
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| Shows |
CAC, BOS, Best Bitch
3 x Res.CAC, 3 x 3rd Best Best Bitch
10 x EXC, several CQ in working class with class wins
Finnish Winner 2010: 2nd best Junior Female with Excellent (out of 11)
BOB-puppy, Best puppy class 1 & 2nd Best Bitch puppy, 2 x HP
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| Other |
3rd in TOP NEWCOMER Toller 2011 competition by Finnish Toller Club
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Pedigree:
Coefficient of inbreeding (6 generations): 1,17%
SE UCH LPI
Digby Tollers Power King
A/A 0:0 |
SE TRCH
Lönnlövets Nougat
A/A 0:0 |
LPI LPII
Ducktoller's Curry
A/A 0:0 |
SE UCH & SE OBCH LPI LPII LPIII
Lönnlövets Piggelin
ua 0:0 |
SE TRCH, SE U(U)CH & DK CH NORDJW-03 SE W-06
Lauvstuas Snowline Zwinging Betty
A/A 0:0 |
NO UCH & DK CH
Shaggy Toller's Zilver Zimba
A/A 0:0 |
NO TRCH & SE TRCH, NORD UCH DKCH NO UCH SE U(U)CH SEW-08 WW-08 WWV-10 BISS
Lauvstuas Zamantha Fox
A/A |
SE U(U)CH & NO UCH NOW-08
Allydor's Unifly To Arrive
A/A 0:0 |
C.I.E. & SE U(U)CH FINW-01 FINW-02 FINW-05 EEW-02 NORDW-03
SEW-04 WWV-08 BISS
Hingstbackes Red-Cajo
B/B 0:0 |
Applehill's Ok Zeiban
A/A |
Trindy's Happy World
A/A |
FI UCH SE LCH SE VCH SE U(u)CH C.I.E NORDUCH NO UCH DK CH SE U(u)CH LPI LPII LPIII SEW-04 SEW-10 NORDVW-11 BISS
Allydor's Penny Alhena
B/B 0:0 |
LP1
Bluenosers Red Jacket
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TJH
Allydor's Kelly La Superba
ua 0:0 |
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Ducky's story
It was year 2004 when I started to plan getting another toller. In 2005 Cajo was asked the sire a litter of a
stunning female but unfortunately a bit before the planned mating she was found to have an eye problem
so the puppy plans failed. The same year Cajo sired a litter in Sweden with the triple champion Penny (Allydor's Penny Alhena).
In 2007 I decided to ask Sofia, the owner of Alice from Penny-Cajo litter, about her plans to possibly mate Alice. Based on what I
had seen and heard, Alice seemed just like my type of a tollerfemale, like her sister Tilly too. In December 2007 I
met Alice again and the thought about her puppy in the future got stronger. After this there
was one litter planned to Cajo but it was canceled and I also thought for a little while taking a puppy
from a Finnish litter but I decided to wait having Alices puppies in my mind.
In summer 2008 I however got contacted from the Netherlands and asked if Cajo could sire a litter there. In next spring the female
was indeed inseminated with Cajo's frozen semen. Because I had dreamed about Cajo's puppy for a long time, spent
many months inspecting the backgrounds of the combination and had fallen for both the combination and the female,
I wanted a puppy from this litter. The artificial insemination however failed for everyone's disappointment and
I had to forget my dream about Cajo's puppy. I was finally
certain that the puppy of Alice and this spesific combination would be the one where I hoped
to get a puppy from. I was in a lucky situation because I had had the priviledge to take part in finding the right male and therefore knew
the combination well already. The chosen male was Swedish "Piper" whom I had seen in Swedish specialty 2006 for the first time
when he became BIS puppy. I also saw him with Sofia in the world winner show in Stockholm 08 and that's when
it all began. The pedigree combines many interesting dogs out of which some were familiar to me already from previous
plans. I had met the dam of the
litter, Alice, and her mother Penny, sister Tilly and brother Nemo many
times when visiting Sweden and like them all very much. Alice's dad is my own Cajo who I of course know
well :) I had also seen some of Piper's relatives.
For the first time I saw Ducky when she was 4 weeks old. In the pictures she had been my favourite
from the first pictures and was one of my two favourites also live. The puppies were still all very similar
carebears. Therefore I had decided to wait with the decision until the puppies would be older and one could
see their structure and character better. When I visited them for the second time, there was no doubt about which
puppy was my favourite. Girl number 5 was actually the first to run through the tunnel that the puppies
had in their pen when I came to see them. Later she was looking at me with her pretty eyes and worked like I had hoped in my little "tests" and I
was sold :) She was also just crazy with the birds (just like her littermates too). The most important thing was however that
she felt and looked like "my puppy" and the feeling didn't become lighter as she was the one who always came near to see what I
was doing when I was shooting a video of the puppies and was also the one staring eagerly at the birds to the
outside of the puppy pen already before the puppies got to work with them. This puppy really put the last touch to my
decision ;) Thank you for this wonderful puppy!
About character
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When I was searching for a new puppy I knew which qualities I wanted the dog to have. I was very lucky, because Ducky really
has been the kind of a dog that I had been looking for.
She is a small female, very determined and quick as a lightning when she moves. She does concentrate extremely well in the tasks that
are given to her so she is easy to train even when there's a lot happening right next to her. She has a good self-confidence,
doesn't have a problem in going further away from her leader in retrieving tasks etc.
She has had a strong eye contact ever since she was a small puppy. There is humbleness in her character and she has very much will-to-please; she likes to work
together with her owner and always gives her best, she wants to do right and get the positive feedback. She truly loves working and
that itself is much of a reward to her, so one doesn't need to use time to find the ways to motivate her: the working itself
motivates her.
In training, both the treats and the toys and also my voice work as a reward to her because she is extremely greedy for food and very playful and
she finds it important to do right.
Ducky has lots of working drive and does the tasks with high enthusiasm and speed reagrdless of the activity, so I really love to train her.
When I'm for example doing obedience with her, she usually doesn't hear neither see anything else happening around her, she just concentrates on working with me and
that's one of the features that I love about her. In hunting training she is usually relaxed when waiting but in her own turn she is like a rocket.
She has quite a nice on-off button; is relaxed and calm when nothing is happening but instantly ready when
I want her to do something.
She has strong hunting instincts and she has since a little puppy taken all kinds of game completely spontaneously and eagerly (she has seen several kinds of water birds, bunnies,
seagulls, crows, magpies, pheasants and some more).
 Also every dead (and rotten)
birds that she has found from the woods herself... She has a deep and balanced grib from both dummies and game.
Even otherwise Ducky likes to carry everything,
no matter if it was a garbage that she found on our walk or a spoon or a dish brush - she can sometimes carry the objects that she has found
even for a kilometer. At least so far she also likes every dog and human so when she is permitted, she likes to go
to meet the other dogs and play with them. On the other hand
she spends the days inside at the home just enjoying sleeping so she is quite invisible at home and living with her is easy. Ducky seems like an adaptable and
balanced dog. She is like at home when we visit someone and doesn't stess walking in a crowd but instead takes the situations relaxed and brisky. She also meets new acquaintances, like horses,
bravely.
In the bus she goes to sleep on my legs and doesn't pay attention to the people walking on the gangway. As a puppy she didn't destroy anything else than
pens etc. small objects that had fallen down from the table (except for one cellphone). Even nowadays she does grab almost everything that will fall from the table
and carry it around but she doesn't break them and if one will call her name, she will extremely happily run back to bring the object. All in all I think she
has the qualities needed from a good working dog: braveness, capability to relax, playfulness and will to work.
Ducky doesn't seem to have the most highest selfprotection instinct or then it is her attitude that
makes her belive she can do everything ;) Since she was a small puppy she has been jumping huge jumps
to very high and from very high, causing my breath to stop at times. She loves playing with water, splat the water or trying to catch the water drops
in the shower. Inside her there is still living a dog that very much loves affection. She loves to come and sleep right next to me or come
to sleep on my legs when I'm sitting and working. She even wanted to eat a bone under my arm when she was a small puppy. I think she is exactly the right kind of a dog for me,
easy and "like she wasn't even there" when we are at home, but always gives 100% of herself and wants to work for me and with me when I'm training her. With Ducky I have learned
that a door doesn't have to be a barrier, it can only be an obstacle that slows your way a little bit but its completely possible to go even
through it if you just want that enough ;)
Training / hobbies
With Ducky the main goals are in hunting (retriever-B) and obedience tests and also in agility. Ducky passed the Finnish cold game retrieving test (gaining result NOU1)
at first attempt in October 2010 after only 6 weeks training! We had time to train
the search square with dummies for a couple of times, we trained the water retrieves with seagull for two times and the bunny track only for two times. Ducky did
her first real search square ever with the crows (50 x 50 m) in the testsituation because we didn't had had time to train that beforehand :)
She is showing lots of promise and I really wait for results in B-tests in the future. To see what the
test includes, check her result page. She has seen several new birds during 2011 and has taken all of them spontaniously, full with enthusiasm. Otherwise we have concentrated
in other hobbies during 2011 but I'm planning on training her ready for the B-tests
in winter/spring 2012.
I hadn't actually planned to start agility with Ducky but in the spring 2011 she was measured to be Medi and a couple of people
told us that she has the qualities of an agility dog so we attended a beginners' course. Like I guessed, I got again
carried away with agility and therefore we'll continue the training in a so called target-oriented training group in autumn 2011 and
spring 2012. It will be fun to see what we can get out of this little girl who is very motivated also in this new hobby of her's :)
Ducky's first official show was the Finnish Winner show in Helsinki. She gained Excellent and was placed as 2nd best junior out of 11 junior females - only
one placement from the Junior Winner title :) His brother Vincent gained the same result in males being the 2nd best junior male.
After that Ducky has been shown a couple of times and has gained CAC, BOS, 2 x RES-CAC, 2 x BB-3 and won the working class
several times with Excellent. She did her
mental description (MH) in October 2011 with 1 from shotreaction.
Game tracking is a very occasional hobby at least at the moment just for fun. Ducky has shown to have a sharp nose, walking exactly
on the track right from the beginning, but I find this hobby very time-taking and I'm at the moment more interested in
other hobbies so we're probably not going to compete in tracking. Well, at least not unless I'll find another handler for her ;)
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